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Thursday, 30 September 2010

Ok folks, I need your advice. Which of these should be the quilt top? I can't decide. Why does it matter, you ask? Well, the top will be quilted which means the quilting on the back is not as neat. That's all.

I think you all know how much I love, no, LOOOOOVE fabric and I think I need to get into the habit of sharing more of my fabric with you, well pictures of my fabric, of course, duh.

So here is a little random selection of the fabrics I found at the Festival of Quilts.

I am currently trying to get Heather Ross's "Far Far Away 2" but am really struggling to find them in the UK. I bought a few FQs off Katy from I'm a ginger monkey but was hoping to find the darker greys and purples too. If anyone has a suggestion where I could find them in the UK (can't bear waiting for up to 6 weeks for a package and pay horrendous customs charges) I would love you forever.

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Finally, my first reversible Quilt-as-you-go-Quilt project is finished and I am quite happy with the result. By using the Quilt-as-you-go method I was able to work more precisely and quilt it more thoroughly, which I am usually not able to do.

My hands are now very sore and I need to nurse them back to health, but all in all I can say I enjoyed it very much and will definitely do this again.

The plus side:- more thorough quilting- easier to quilt smaller pieces- less "air bubbles" on the back (normally that's a real problem when working entirely without a sewing machine)

The negative:- exhausting- not really faster- uneven sashing when blocks are not exactly matching in size on front and back- quilting on the back still not exactly even

sorry for the low quality images due to bad lighting indoors, taken on the iPhone

close up

hanging over a chair

folded

... and the back

close up

folded

Pheewww. Now I need a little break. All my major projects are finished and I might just go back to painting for a little while (though I will still quilt in the evenings or while watching telly with the Monkey).

I hope you like this one.

Love, Nadine

PS: This quilt is made up entirely by leftover scraps. At some point I will blog about the quilt which produced these scraps.

Friday, 3 September 2010

Finally I am making some progress. Only two more projects to go and then I can cut into new fabric, hurrah.

I showed you the blocks I made from scraps for my first attempt at using the quilt as you go method on a reversible quilt.

I finally got around to quilting them and as I took the Process Pledge I thought I might show you how I did it.

It is pretty easy and self-explanatory really.

I placed the blocks on the batting and tried to place the blocks for the back as precisely over the blocks for the other side as I could. (Not so easy when the blocks aren't exactly the same size, but eh, let's see where this leads me)

Then quilted them using straight line quilting. of course everything done by hand as usual.

close up:

The quilting as it shows on the back (slightly wonky I know):

And next time I'll show you how I attached the pieces together and made rows. Let's see if this will become a quilt yet.